Stephanie Selmer, John Doyle

Sept. 28, 2014

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Stephanie Erin Selmer and John McKinstry Doyle were married Saturday at Lincoln, a restaurant in Washington. Judge Liam O’Grady of Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia officiated; in 2012 and 2013, the groom was his clerk in Alexandria, Va.

The couple met at Harvard, where they earned law degrees.

The bride, 32, is a lawyer in the Washington office of Google. Until April she was an associate in the Washington office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the New York law firm. She graduated from Stanford.

She is a daughter of Debra J. Selmer and James C. Selmer of Golden Valley, Minn. The bride’s father owns a law firm in Minneapolis. Her mother makes children’s clothing for Fairy Finery, a store in Golden Valley.

The groom, 34, works in the Washington office of Palantir Technologies, a software company in Palo Alto, Calif. He helps develop and manage software for the intelligence industry. From July 2003 to July 2008 he served in the Army Special Forces, most recently in Fort Campbell, Ky., where he attained the rank of staff sergeant. His service included a tour in Iraq in 2007 and 2008. He graduated from Knox College in Galesburg, Ill.

He is the son of Connie S. Youngberg of Northbrook, Ill., and Judge Timothy M. Doyle of Albuquerque, N.M. He is the stepson of Elizabeth Doyle and of Victor Youngberg. The groom’s mother is a secretary and health clerk at the Elizabeth Meyer School, an elementary school in Skokie, Ill. His father retired as a circuit court judge for Barron County in Barron, Wis.